Speak Out August 2017

National conference

27–30 May, 2018 Adelaide Convention Centre, South Australia LAUNCH OF IN SP IRE

IN SP IRE : INS piring P ractice I nnovation, R esearch and E ngagement was officially launched in Sydney. Congratulations to the delegates who won various donated prizes and Anne Pearson from Queensland who was sitting in the “lucky seat” and won the complimentary registration to SPA2018. The 2018 Conference Planning Committee (CPC) looks forward to bringing you updates about the National Conference in each issue of Speak Out and also through the monthly issue of National Conference eNews. Keynote and invited speakers The CPC is pleased to introduce to you the first of our two keynote speakers. Information about the presentations by the keynote speakers will be available in the coming months.

Call for papers Information about the conference and the call for papers is available at www.speechpathologyaustralia.org.au. Go to the professional development link and then National Conference 2018. We would encourage you to “spread the news” through your many networks, colleagues and friends, wherever they are in the world. Send them the link to the Association’s website where they can read more about the National Conference and submission process. We have also included on the Conference website instructions for making submissions which we hope will provide guidance and assistance before you proceed to the actual submission process and a checklist to ensure that you are prepared to finalise the submission. Please remember that delegates will only have access to the title of the paper and author(s) names when they register and select sessions they wish to attend, so please carefully think about your presentation title. This will help ensure the audience you wish to attract and have the greatest interest in your topic will attend. While the closing date for submissions is Wednesday, 13 September 2017, there is no need to wait until the due date to submit your proposal. This will assist the Scientific Program Chair (SPC) in managing the review process and help us develop the Conference program in a timely manner. Call for reviewers The Scientific Program Chair (SPC) is becoming increasingly busy as papers, posters and workshops are now being submitted. These submissions need to be reviewed, and the SPC is encouraged by the response so far. If additional reviewers are required an announcement will be made within the August issue of National Conference eNews. Feedback The CPC is reading and discussing the feedback provided through this year’s conference survey to assist with planning for 2018. Where possible we will incorporate the suggestions/ recommendations. We would like to congratulate Helen Smith from South Australia who won the complimentary 2018 National Conference Registration. Barbara Lyndon 2018 Conference Convenor

Ron Gillam, PhD holds the Raymond and Eloise Lillywhite Endowed Chair in Speech-Language Pathology at Utah State University, where he is also the co-director of the Interdisciplinary Doctoral Program in Neuroscience. His research, which has been funded by the National Institutes of Health and the US Department of Education, primarily concerns information processing, language assessment, and language intervention with school- age children with language disorders.

Dr Gillam has published three books, three norm-referenced tests, and more than 130 articles and book chapters. He has been an associate editor of the Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, the American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology , and Topics in Language Disorders . Dr Gillam has received numerous teaching and research awards including honours of the American Speech, Language, and Hearing Association (ASHA), Distinguished Alumnus at Indiana University, ASHA Fellow, the Haydn Williams Fellow at Curtin University in Western Australia, the Dads Association Centennial Teaching Fellowship at the University of Texas at Austin, the Editor’s Award for the article of highest merit in the Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research (twice) and the Robins Award for the outstanding researcher at Utah State University.

Pamela Richards National Conference Manager

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